Firefox/Content Performance Program/status

Status Report for Content Performance

Status for this project has moved to the mana. It's easier for to manage there. I will distill info into this wiki if people are feeling very strongly about it. Vladan has an excellent blog and so does Yoric for the general public.

Overall Project Health

This Week	Last Week

Hot Topics

• We're yellow because we need to land on a plan for Q3. Some options are:
  • Evaluate Top Sites
  • GFX Impact on Scrolling
  • Windows 10 Perf
  • e10s (single-tab use case)
    • e10s performance on the single-tab use case is no worse than non-e10s
    • e10s performance on the multi-tab use case is no worse than non-e10s
  • Figure out how to make dynamic websites reproducible
  • New Page Loading Tests
  • Identify good scrolling wins such as trackpad
• We have a clear set of sites to focus on: Yahoo search results, Twitter, Facebook
• Initial scrolling results can be found, here

Action Items

Risk	Action	Owner	Target Date
Follow up on issues reported to platform; get tickets filed and figure out next action	Open	Erin	7/29 (due to pto)
Identify final list for Q3	Open	Vladan, bsmedberg	7/27

Highlights and Accomplishments

• Decision made to exclusively focus on Android 5.0+ and Windows 7, 8.1 & 10. Initially focus on Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo search results
• Met with the 60fps team and have an agreed upon definition of how the two projects will coexist/collaborate
• Identified top issues for platform team to focus on:
  • bug 1174899
  • Worse Firefox scrolling performance with laptop in power-save mode
  • Scrolling Twitter feed with YouTube HTML5 videos is jankier in Firefox

Planned for Q3

• We should have the specifics by July 27th

Important Links/References

• Content Perf Landing Page
• Previous Week's Status